Product Details

• Directors: Richard Walton, Greg Dodge
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Brownbag Productions
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2004
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1888814101
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,361 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Guy Tudor, President, New York City Butterfly Club

"The best introduction to Eastern butterflies."

Product Description

Eastern butterflies and skippers are diverse and beautiful and this DVD provides the perfect introduction to these colorful insects. Close-up videography and an educational narrative are combined here to introduce you to 70 common butterflies. Learn these and you will easily recognize most of the butterflies in your backyard as well as in local fields and meadows.

Both children and adults can share in the fascinating and wonderful world of butterflies and butterfly watching. Now with the help of this DVD you too can learn the butterflies.

Included is a special section on monarchs and monarch migration.

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful, and a must for beginners, February 27, 2011

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This review is from: Common Butterflies and Skippers of Eastern North America (DVD)

It's not HD and it's not the caliber of your typical Discovery Channel production, but this "independent" documentary video is crisp, clean, and well-narrated. Put together by Richard Walton and Greg Dodge, the video does a good job of covering the most common butterflies and skippers that you'll find east of the Rockies.

That's a big area, which means that many species will not appear in your range, and because there are so many Lepidoterans, not all of them can be covered. Even so, this video will surely help with identification, and in many cases it is better than field guidebooks because the subjects fill your screen and are seen from a variety of angles. The narration includes identification tips and occasional background information.

One important thing I appreciate about this production, unlike nature shows you see on television, is that the shots were all apparently taken in the field -- that means you're not getting studio fakery, recreations, or animated trickery. Real butterflies and skippers videotaped by real enthusiasts in natural settings. You can't beat that.